Sky Park Hotel Phnom Penh
#78, Street 111 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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The boys are back in town.
On the 26th we met up with Jake and James and then picked up Albert and Geo from Phnom Penh airport. It was so lovely to see people that we knew and associated with home. It has kind of made us feel like we're on the home straight, which I suppose we are - we have under a month left! Whilst in the capital we visited the Tuol Sleng prison turned …
Educational visit to Phnom Penh
We struck a deal with a tuk tuk driver to have his services for the day. Our first stop was the Killing Fields (Choeung Ek). It was really disturbing to learn about Pol Pots and the Khmer Rouge's regime. On arrival there was a large Memorial Stupa full of skulls and bones of some of the victims. Surrounding this were ditches where the mass open …
The Rendevous
At 6am I hauled myself out of bed for yet another early start, grabbed some breakfast from the coffee shop across the street and got picked up and taken to the bus. As I stepped on I am amazed by the leather upholstery and the bed like reclining seats! Three hours later we had arrived at the Vietnamese side of the border. Here we had to get our …
Everybody Looks Suspicious
Started off the day with baguette, butter, jam and coffee at the Lazy Mekong Daze. This was my favorite place in town, because you could enjoy decent food as you stare at the Old French Lighthouse across the river. I wasn't happy with the Mekong Hotel, because their breakfast ended at 9am and they weren't willing to negotiate any prices, including …
There's no jovial way to put this:
Today we visited the S-21 prison camp and the killing fields, some of the grimmest, most horrific things we have seen and heard of in our lives happened in these places during the Pol Pot regime and this country still bears the scars of what happened here. You cannot help being moved by what you see and read about these places. History teaches some harsh lessons


